"The depression hit Britain in late 1929 and it saw a ‘shanty town’ of unemployed men and a few women develop on land near Hendon\. The site bordered the Brent Reservoir (commonly called Welsh) and bathing in the lake was also permitted. In the summer of 1930 some of the men took to sunbathing naked, having chalked up notices on trees warning the public not to intrude if they were offended by nudity.

Nothing this bold could be kept secret forever and by June roughly 40 men and women would sunbath naked – or topless – on the banks of the Welsh Harp Reservoir at a weekend."

"Recently my Facebook news page had a picture removed by Facebook with the advisory “your picture breached community standards blah blah blah, please remove any other pictures of this nature”, they did not penalise me with a timeout in the sin bin, probably because it was a first offence.

The picture in question was a photo from behind of myself after I was body painted at the Samurai Beach Nude Picnic held on the 6th of April 2013. Then they hit me again..." Read Nudeyman's Article: FACEBOOK “COMMUNITY STANDARDS”

"I strolled through the woods completely free, listening to the birds, feeling the sweat glisten on my skin in the humid air. I just felt, relaxed. I was happy for once, it taught me that there was a therapeutic way to rid myself of the anxiety.

Not only because I was nude, but because I was in a place where I was accepted. Nakedness and all."

"The Naturist Society is a membership organization first and foremost. If you enjoy skinny-dipping, nude sunbathing, or that feeling of freedom while nude, then TNS membership is for you. Join TNS today and let your membership card serve as your passport to nude adventures."

""We’ve been proceeding systematically, using fairly standard techniques of creative problem solving. The first steps were to recognize that problems exist, to identify the main problems, to try to understand their causes, and to accept the challenge of finding solutions for the problems. There’s no strong claim that the analysis so far is mostly correct. The community as a whole is going to have to judge that." Solving naturism’s problems, part 1: research

This is a fairly long and involved article, as Naturist Philosopher is disposed to do, and is very good. We here at All-Nudist can tend to verbosity on occasion (duh!) but are not disposed, personally, to long treatises delving into the various intricacies of social nudism. We offer you, our readers, doors into various aspects of our lifestyle. It's up to you to continue as far as you wish, knowing that we direct you to valuable information.

"Little did I know in December 2011, when I chose the Naturist Association of Thailand as my Real Naturist of the Year 2011, that the organization would take such a flight and that I would join it.According to its website http://thailandnaturist.com, it now has more than 1,400 members, not just in Thailand, but worldwide. And from now on, that also includes me." Read I Am a Thailand Naturist

"This review has been on the drawing board for sometime, almost a year in fact. But after seeing a post about the best beaches in the Bay Area my memory was jogged so I pulled this from the article backlog and I finished up for posting.